Glove-fastener



(No Model.)

' E. B. WHITNEY GLOVE FASTENER.

No. 422,272. Patented feb. 25, 1890.

UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND BARTON WVI'IITNEY, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND lWIESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO MADISON I). SHIPMAN AND CHARLES E. BRAD'I, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

G LOVE- FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters E'atent No. 422,272, dated February 25, 1890.

Application filed December 6, 1888. Serial No. 292,809. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: into play more of the free end of the string.

Be it known that I, EDMUND BARTON WVHIT- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 NEY, of Gloversville, in the county of Fulton represents one form of my invention as apand State of New York, have invented a new plied to a glove. Fig. 2 is adetail view of the 5 and useful Improvement in Glove-Fasteners; upper portion of the glove, showing it as and I do hereby declare that the following is a drawn together. full, clear, and exact description of the same. In the drawings, A represents a glove hav- My invention relates particularly to an iming a front opening a, in which is inserted a proved fastener for gloves of that class in gore b. An eyelet c is inserted on the right- IO which a string is used to draw the end of the hand margin of the opening a, and through glove tightly around the wearers wrist when this is threaded a string b, which passes to the glove is in use 5 but the invention is not the left and is inserted through an. opening limited in its use in connection with gloves, or eyelet e in the back of the glove, being I as it may be found equally as well adapted to knotted 011 the inside to prevent it from slip- 1 5 other situations. ping out. It will be understood that instead In my invention I provide a very simple of extending the string from an eyelet in the 6 5 but eifective fastening device, which may be right-l1and margin to the left, this maybe reoperated by one hand and which requires versed. and a second eyelet may be inserted only a short string and but a single eyelet on in the left-hand margin, so as to allow the 20 the margin of the front opening. wearer to arrange the cord according to his The invention consists of afastening-string own taste. Instead of passing the other end secured to the glove at the rear or at any of the string through an eyelet in the glove suitable point removed from the front, so as it may be secured to it permanently or held to inclose a portion of the circumference of in any desired manner.

25 the glove sufficient to produce abinding effect, While I have shown in Fig. 1 the invention and the end of this string is passed through as applied to a glove having a front opening an eyelet in the glove on the margin of the covered by a gore, I may of course apply it opening opposite to that to which the string to a glove having a rear opening likewise covextends from its connection at its opposite ered by a gore, and it will be understood 0 end. The end of the string is preferably prothat the location of the string or cord will vided with a ball or any convenient or ornavary according to the requirements of the mental tip to permit of the wearer to grasp it glove to which it may be applied. readilyin order to draw the glove tight around The free end of the cord is provided with the wrist. Interposed between the two points a ball knot or tip f, which may be of any suit- 3 5 at which the string is in connection with the able or ornamental. construction. As shown glove-that is, the point of connection and the in Fig. 1, threaded upon the two strands of eyelet on the margin of the gloveopeningthe cord or string is a binder g, which is is a binder-piece, which also receives the free shown as being provided with a single eyelet, end of the string projecting through the said and consisting of a simple piece of leather,

4o eyelet, and when the string is drawn taut this the free end of the cord upon one side of the binder serves, by reason of the pressure eyelet in the margin of the glove, passing 9% placed upon it as it is forced down between through the eyelet or hole in the binder, and the binding string and the material of the the strand of the string on the other side of glove, to bind the string and hold the parts the eyelet in the margin of the glove, also 45 as they are thus gathered and prevent the passingthroughthesaidopeninginthebinder.

glove from becoming loosened, until it is freed It will thus be seen that when the glove is in from its pressure by drawing directly upon place, by drawing upon the hinder or free the binding-piece, thus freeing the string end of the cord;'or, in other words, moving from the pressure placed upon it by bringing the binder and tip f away from the eyelet c,

the end of the glove is gathered tightly around the wrist, and this forces the binder down snugly against the material of the glove and between the cords or strings and the Wrist, the tip preventing the free end from slipping through the binder, and the pressure thus exerted upon the two strands held in place by the tipand binder is sufficient to hold the glove so gathered by friction and prevent it from slipping. WVhen it is desired, however, to remove the glove or loosen the end around the wrist, it is only necessary to grasp the projecting end of the binder and draw it toward thus prevent the free end of the string from slipping under such pressure; also, the binder g may be threaded so as to leave the ball or tip upon its reverse side, thereby increasing the friction and preventing it from slipping.

I claim as my invention In combination, a glove-fastening consisting of the string secured at the back or side of the glove, and having its other end passing through an eyelet on the opposite side, a binder piece having a single opening through which the string passes in crossing the wrist, the free end of the string projecting through the eyelet being carried back upon itself and passed through the opening in the binder, and a knot or tip on the free end of the string, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

E. BARTON WVHITNEY. Vi tnesses:

EDGAR A. SPENCER, NICHOLAS M. BANKER. 

